Projects

Collaborative Projects


Collaboration with artists from other disciplines is at the heart of Emerald Ballet Theatre’s mission to create, celebrate, and inspire. EBT sponsors and hosts several workshops that focus on highlighting local talent and provide new and exciting educational experiences for dancers, musicians, and other artists.

EBT strives to inspire excellence in the arts, where young artists apply their training in new ways.


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The Jewel Heart Project is a new project from EBT that celebrates local talent Barbara Helen Berger (local award-winning author/illustrator and artist), and Viktoria Titova (EBT’s artistic director, ballerina and choreographer).

Professional musicians' include:
  • Pamela Liu, violinist
  • Kathryn Nickerson and Judy Huehn, pianists,
  • Bob Wyda, guitar 
  • Redmond High School choir under the direction of Ms. Arianna Guthrie
  • Redmond High School orchestra under the direction of Ms. Paula Ferguson
  • Selected student soloists play a variety of instrumentation including piano, cello, oboe, clarinet, flute, and marimba.
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The Music Can Dance workshop is an educational event co-sponsored by Emerald Ballet Theatre (EBT) and the Lake Washington Music Teachers Association (LWMTA), a chapter of the Washington State Music Teacher’s Association.

Music and dance students ages 8-18 may participate in the workshop and it is open to teachers and the general public for observation Participants will come together as an ensemble to learn about other art forms, create and perform their collaborative efforts for teachers, peers and the general public at the culminating performance at the end of the day.

Guided hands-on activities teach articulation, interpretation and expression through live music and original choreography composed by developing young artists.

EBT also presented a MCD Workshop at the 2009 Eastside Ribbon Festival

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